A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.
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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.Sydney Smith
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!
Sydney Smith
To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
The moment the very name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence, and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants, and the fatuity of idiots.
Sydney Smith
Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
Sydney Smith
No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
Sydney Smith
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